Mummies

Today in seminary,

us as a council put together a temple day to teach everyone about temples.

You would think the main thing i got out of it would be about temples,right?

You are wrong.

The thing i took with me this lesson was about mummies.

Did you know, the church bought 4 mummies in the 1830's?

i sure didn't and i think its pretty sweet.

Thats the furthest thing i would ever imagine the church buying. 

i did some research and i found this story here.

its says...

In the late 1820s an Italian explorer named Antonio Lebolo obtained eleven mummies from an ancient tomb in Egypt. When Lebolo died the mummies were shipped to the United States. A man named Michael Chandler came into possession of the mummies in 1833. He opened the coffins (the boxes the mummies were in) and was disappointed not to find jewels or valuable treasures. Attached to some of the bodies of the mummies were linen cloths containing rolls of papyrus, a type of paper made from plants. These papyrus rolls had Egyptian writing on them. Mr. Chandler took the rolls to Pennsylvania, where he tried to find some educated men to tell him about the writings, but even the most educated of these men were only able to understand a little of the writings.
Mr. Chandler decided to travel around the country showing people the mummies, and in the summer of 1835 he came to Kirtland, Ohio. There he met with Joseph Smith, who told him that the writings could be interpreted. Later some friends of the Prophet bought four mummies and the rolls of papyrus from Mr. Chandler. Joseph Smith studied the letters and grammar of the Egyptian language, and then, with the help of the Holy Ghost, he translated the writings on the papyrus rolls. The writings Joseph Smith translated tell about the ancient prophet Abraham and are now published as the book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price.

Pretty sweet huh?

now my only question is

where are they?

did we throw them away?

lock them up?

bury them back east?

took them over the plains in a wagon and locked them up in the vault in the mountain?

how creepy would that be?

making the trek with four mummies?